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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir made everyone feel feelings with their Olympic gold medal in ice dance on Tuesday. Now the duo from London and Ilderton is set to do it again at the figure skating gala on Sunday. They are going to skate to a Gord Downie song in tribute to the Tragically Hip frontman, who died of brain cancer in October 2017.

“When I think about Gord and I think about the Hip and what they’ve been able to do, it’s kind of the soundtrack to being Canadian almost,” Moir said to Lori Ewing of the Canadian Press about their “Long Time Running” performance. “It’s special for us that we get to skate to the Hip, and it’s our tribute to one of my heroes and a guy who was so wonderfully weird, and just how he embraced life.”

“We’re both huge fans, and Scott just asked if we could somehow choreograph a little tribute and we thought maybe it would only be for that one competition, but it’s been lovely to take the ice and to celebrate a Canadian hero, and it means a lot to us,” Virtue said to CP. “The lyrics of ‘Long Time Running’ also are easy for us to connect with for our career, but we’re really looking forward to performing that on Olympic ice.”